Original Post
Just a quick note, to say I want to stop giving the effort I spend helping people use QGIS to Reddit to sell to the AI overlords. So I’m purposing my heart to put anything that I feel is useful on my blog, Even if it is published on GitHub (owned by one of the AI overlords), at least I control the domain and keep a copy of the information on my machine.
Problem, can I remember how this blog works? It’s been almost 6 years since I posted anything. I guess if this is online, I remembered.
Things I’m getting hung up on:
- What is the name of the software I’m using? Oh it’s Jekyll.
- Seems to be installed.
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Try:
bundle exec jekyll serve -
Nope:
Could not locate Gemfile or .bundle/ directory - Google some stuff.
-
Try:
gem install jekyll bundler -
Hmm, that barfed with:
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0 directory.
- Well, maybe I don’t need to get it working locally, push it up to GitHub and see if anything happens.
- Oh shit, git is still configured to use my password, which GitHub stopped supporting years ago I think.
- Dink around look how something I’m using now is configured.
- Hmm, still problems. Can’t find repository.
- Oh yeah, for some stupid reason I have this repository under a different GitHub username.
- Hey I think that works, but I still need to have a local preview working.
Update 07 Sep 2025
I have a new computer since I last used Jekyll and I was obliviously trying to use the system install of Ruby which is not recommended. Instead I’ve now installed Ruby 3.4.1 and chruby to manage my Ruby environment. In the environment I ended up with the command to serve a local version of my site is simply:
jekyll serve